At risk of redundancy, Dodgers right fielder Mookie Betts is good at baseball.

Okay, Dodgers right fielder Mookie Betts is historically GREAT at baseball.

How historic and how great? Check these tweets by @DodgersInsider following Betts’ 416-foot leadoff home run against the Miami Marlins at LoanDepot Park on Sunday:

Davey Lopes was a Dodger for 10 seasons.

Joc Pederson was a Dodger for seven seasons.

Mookie Betts is in his third season as a Dodger.

Simply put, if you are not watching (or listening to) every Dodgers game that Betts leads off, you are absolutely positively missing baseball history unfolding before your very eyes (or ears) – period.

Betts would finish the day, which ended in an 8-1 Dodgers win, going 3-for-5, with a single and a double to go along with his leadoff solo home run, while driving in two of the Dodgers eight runs.

“Yeah, it’s been a good couple days or whatever,” Betts modestly told reporters after the game. “I’m just swinging at decent pitches. I know I’ve swung a little more out of the zone than I’d like to, but the pitches I’m getting to hit, I’m just hitting them.”

“He’s just swinging the bat so well,” echoed Dodgers manager Dave Roberts. “He’s playing his tail off. Obviously when he’s like this, he stays in the strike zone and it seems like every swing he takes is center-cut.”

Just how well is Betts swinging the bat? Hold on to your hats, Dodger fans. Since August 1, the 29-year-old Nashville, TN native and fifth-round draft pick in 2011 by the Boston Red Sox out of Overton High School in Nashville is 34-for-102 (.333), with 10 doubles, one triple, and eight home runs. He has also driven in 17 runs while scoring 28.

Swinging the bat well indeed.

You have been forewarned, Dodger fans. You do not want to miss any of Mookie Betts’ at-bats each game.

…especially his first one.

Play Ball!

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